Little substance .. I have live and still working system with .. - Centos with +100 users, ldap (LAM), sendmail (or postfix), web, samba, netatalk, dhcp .. all with certificates on a bunch of dell 1950 and MD1000. Because it is scalable, stable 24/7 and for 100 users+ worth all the time spending configuring it. The only problem with this setup are kernel updates.. the only time I bring down the servers ;-) - Clarkconnect (or SME) for small lab, because it is all done in 30 minutes and then you can easily give a "miniadmin" access to the lab manager. They make nice, small, safe effective Gateway or server. They are not a sysadmin (shell) playing ground, 95% of the work is done from the web interface, a little bit like webmin. Clark is commercial but inexpensive and well supported. SME is free, but the config system looks to much like the old Netinfo system from NextStep .. bring back bad memory. Try Clark, if it not what you are looking for, go with CentOS or RH they are very stable and effective OS for server. It will require you more time to get it all working properly. Sure you can install and create accounts in /etc/passwd in minutes .. but if you want all the goodies and security (SSL, email, sasl, LDAP, backup, raid ..) you are in for lots of fun (work). - Workstations, Fedora or Ubuntu .. because I like having the most up2date versions and goodies on my desktop for free. RedHat has nice educational discount, if I remember $50/workstation and $200/server Bonne chance, alain > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:08 AM > To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: School Server Setup] > > Your case up there looks a bit different: It is easy to say that those > are your favourite flavors - but can you substantiate that somehow? > Especially as ClarkConnect and SME are based (or at least were based) > on CentOS but mostly lack a large community behind them -> Vendor Lock- > In. > > Ralph
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